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XTide 2.13.2 (2013-07-21)

   XTide 2.13.2 restores compatibility with the latest Xaw3dXft, fixes the
   native builds of the command-line client under Windows and DOS, and
   incorporates minor patches.  Get it from
   [3]http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/files.html#xtide.

   Coders with experience with the FreeType library, please look at the
   FIXME in xxX.cc.

New Android and iOS ports

   [4]These ones are GPL.

New icons

   Another set of [5]improved icons for XTide has been contributed by
   Kelly Bellis.

tideEditor 1.4.3

   tideEditor has finally been migrated from Qt 3 to Qt 4.  Available from
   [6]http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/files.html#extras.

   2012-10:  A person using Debian 6 had problems building tideEditor
   because the relative paths that Qt headers used to include one another
   had changed.  It was necessary to add -I/usr/include/qt4 to the list of
   qt4 directories in CPPFLAGS (see the README) to make it build.
   However, as of Slackware 14.0 and Qt 4.8.2, the example in the README
   still works for me.  Is this a Debian nonconformity?

End of maintenance for non-free data

   For [7]various reasons, I have ended maintenance of the non-free data
   set.  Anyone interested in generating new harmonic constants from
   published data can find information and a list of data sources [8]here.

Mailing list

   There is a manually-maintained, announce-only mailing list to which I
   send notices of each update to XTide or the harmonics data.  You can
   request to join by e-mailing me at dave@flaterco.com.

   Please note:  If an announcement to you gets bounced by your mail
   server, you fall off the list.  Some long-time contributors have fallen
   off because, unbeknownst to them, their ISPs subscribed to a spam
   blackholing service that blackholed all pair.com-hosted domains after
   one of them sent out spam.

To do list

   XTide

   Suggestions from Kelly Bellis, 2012-09, to improve calendar modes:
     * Put station name, coordinates, and page break on every page.
     * Add a header indicating units and datum type; remove units from
       every height/velocity.
     * PNGs for moon phases / raw numeric moon phase output.

   harmgen
     * Use liboctave instead of a script file.
     * Add pointer to [9]help on installing Octave.

   libtcd

   Things to do in the next major revision, if there ever is one:
     * Add header field to flag tides versus currents.
     * Get rid of internal state; fix inability to have more than one
       database open.
     * Remove gratuitous complexity in the encoding of speeds, equilibrium
       arguments, and node factors; make speeds 32-bit unsigned with no
       offset.
     * Possibly permit node factors to be specified for intervals shorter
       than 1 year and/or support apps that use libcongen to generate the
       node factors themselves.
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References

   1. http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/changelog.html
   2. http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/xtide.html#contents
   3. http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/files.html#xtide
   4. http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/ports.html
   5. http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/files.html#icons
   6. http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/files.html#extras
   7. http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/faq.html#renaissance
   8. http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/harmonics.html#harmgen
   9. http://www.flaterco.com/kb/Octave.html
  10. http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/changelog.html
  11. http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/xtide.html#contents
